RETREAT IN THE HEART OF THE BRAZILIAN FOREST
Set in the heart of the Atlantic rainforest in Paraty, Brazil, this house owes its name “Arca” to its ship-like shape. Located on the border of the Serra da Bocaina National Park, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, it is the result of the Earthship project, which sought to imitate a specific type of […]
DREAM RETREAT IN UTAH
The multidisciplinary studio Andrew Trotter, in Barcelona, will invite us to the heart of the Utah desert at the end of next year. The Paréa Zion project is a landscaped hotel with avant-garde architecture near Zion National Park. It combines the intimacy of a private residence with the service of a boutique hotel for a […]
CHILE, FROM VALPARAISO TO THE ANDEAN PEAKS
From Santiago and its neighbor, the “Pearl of the Pacific,” head for the Norte Grande to explore its Andean natural wonders, from the national parks bordering Bolivia to the Atacama. Unlike other Latin American capitals founded by the conquistadores, Santiago has retained almost no buildings from the colonial era, and a visit to the remarkable […]
THREE STORIES FROM NORWAY
Nordic lights In parallel with its major exhibition devoted to the Normans,1 the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen offers us the opportunity to “discover new territories of visual creation” through a selection of works by three contemporary Norwegian photographers. A change of scenery guaranteed… Although very different, the three universes in which we are transported […]
MARTIN PARR, A PLAYFUL LOOK AT THE ABSURDITY OF THE WORLD
The British living legend invites us to explore his entire work between humor and social criticism at the Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière in Paris. In his fifty-year career, Martin Parr has created fiction from reality, marking European visual culture. This native of Epsom in the United Kingdom, who will blow his 70 spring on […]
JULIETA AVERBUJ, INTROSPECTIVE JOURNEY
The artist and director from Barcelona has been experimenting with the medium of photography for a few years through various series and above all a memorial work, original and full of sensitivity. Julieta Averbuj’s work is about experimentation, introspection, and remembrance. This former film director graduated from the University of Film in Buenos Aires and […]
THE WORLD THROUGH HELIN BEREKET’S EYES
The Turkish photographer, based in Berlin, transports us into her environments where architecture and art are mixed in minimalist, geometric, colorful, and contrasting compositions. Helin Bereket’s photographs invite us to travel around the world to places that give her the most creative freedom. The Istanbul-born, Berlin-based architecture and art graduate took up photography by chance […]
LEXICON LOVE, THE ART OF COLLAGE BETWEEN HUMOUR AND TRAGEDY
“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.” This famous sentence by André Breton, leader of surrealism, adorns the website of Harriet Moutsopoulos alias Lexicon Love. A quote that is perfectly representative of the playful work of this Australian artist of Greek origin. The collagist combines vintage portraits, food […]
ELISA MILLER OR THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SELF
The French photographer, based in London, tells visual stories with a vintage and colorful aesthetic that probes questions of identity, self-perception, and the representation of women. Retro, pin-up, rockabilly, fine art, Hollywood glamor, and cinematic storytelling are Elisa Miller’s workhorses. From this attractive mix emerges a photographic work that immediately catches the eye with its […]
VENISSA, A DOUBLE STAR, RED AND GREEN
Celebrating nature through its restaurant and vineyard, this estate knows how to receive guests with art. Less than an hour by boat from the city of the Doges, once past Murano, it is the lagoon that finds its place on the island of Mazzorbo. Connected to Burano by a bridge that few tourists cross, it […]
JANINE : FRENCH BISTRO CUISINE
Located in the heart of Batignolles, Janine was opened in November 2022. Bistro cuisine, exquisite menu, rich and extremely tasty plates… a real treat for the locals, in Thibault Sizun’s very first restaurant. For his very first place, Thibault remembered moments spent in Brittany with his family, where lunches could sometimes be interminable, but where […]
TOMO KOIZUMI AND THE POWER OF POP COLORS
Tomo Koizumi, whose real name is Tomotoka Koizumi, is a Japanese designer with a colorful and voluminous universe. Based in Tokyo, he discovered fashion at the age of 14, with the Christian Dior couture collection, designed by John Galliano, in 2004. Over the years, he has developed his universe as a vibrant tribute to Japanese […]
Les endroits pour faire un shooting photo dans le quartier du Marais
Les endroits pour faire un shooting photo dans le quartier du Marais sont divers et variés. Lorsque vous imaginez Paris, le Marais ne vous vient pas instinctivement à l’esprit. En comparaison à New York, le Marais s’apparente au West Village ou encore à Soho. Et les endroits ne manquent pas pour faire des shooting photos […]
TIAGO BESSA, REFLECTION ON IDENTITY
The young Portuguese designer designs a first committed collection that makes them one of the finalists of the Hyères Festival 2023 at Villa Noailles. Focus on a talent to follow. “Hermaphrodite” is the name of Tiago Bessa’s graduation collection that explores the concepts of gender and inclusion. A critical and personal exercise on the social […]
MAN RAY AND FASHION
After the Cantini Museum in Marseille in 2019 and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris in 2020, it is the turn of the Fashion Museum in Antwerp to show the fashion photographs of Man Ray, confronted this time-here, to the creations of contemporary stylists and photographers influenced by the work of the Surrealist, such as Martin […]
LOUIS VUITTON SETS UP SHOP IN PALM SPRINGS
As an expression of the House’s unparalleled know-how and craftsmanship, Louis Vuitton continues its invitation to travel through a campaign that highlights the Art de Vivre collections. From trunks to lifestyle accessories and Nomadic Objects, the French label infuses its conventions, tradition, and French art of living into a colorful short film. Set on the […]
THE AESTHETIC EMOTIONS OF CHLOE LE DREZEN
The French photographer, nourished by the sensibility of beauty, explores the transformative power of make-up, light, and composition in her photographs and limited-edition zines. Chloé Le Drezen has been fascinated by photography since the day she picked up her father’s camera as a child. Since then, this native of Nantes has never stopped learning photography […]
ALAÏA, BACK TO SOHO
The emblematic district of SoHo, where Azzedine Alaïa opened a first space and launched its global success in the 80s, welcomes again the French-Tunisian designer. At the entrance of 2023, the House opened a new boutique at 149 Mercer Street. “New York has always been one of the creative hearts intimately linked to the history […]
THREE FILMS TO WATCH AT CANNES
As always, a lot of good people are expected on the Croisette for the second half of May, from Martin Scorsese’s big comeback with Killers of the Flower Moon, to the stunning casting of Wes Anderson’s new film, Asteroid City. Among a rich and eclectic selection, between regulars and newcomers, three films particularly attract our […]
RILEY KEOUGH, ACTOR, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
The actor, who plays the lead role in the Prime Video series Daisy Jones and the Six, presents, with Gina Gammell, her first film as a director, War Pony – Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2022. What if Riley Keough is the new icon of American independent cinema? In 2015, in a motel […]
NEMANJA NIKOLIC : Double black
The Serbian artist Nemanja Nikolić (1987) embarked on a strange journey back and forth between still and animated images in his project Double Noir, initiated in 2016. Using still images from eighteen films starring Humphrey Bogart, he drew, with white chalk on a blackboard, fragments of sequences that he photographed, before erasing them to compose […]
FRANZ ROGOWSKI, THE EUROPEAN
He radiates Disco Boy, the first film by Giacomo Abbruzzese, Silver Bear at the last Berlin Film Festival, in which he plays the main role. Portrait of a sensitive and mysterious actor. We met him as a refugee in the occupied Marseille of Transit by Christian Petzold (2018), or as a passionate lover in Ondine, […]
SIMON MARTIN : Evanescence / Florescence
Painting as an evanescence, a breath, a murmur, a memory, an apparition… It is such a florescence, a germination or a flux that, in its flows of blue, yellow, and pale roses, the painting of Simon Martin appears to us. “Here and there, repentances and drips, sub-layers and contours are left visible,” says Horya Makhlouf, […]
JOANNA PIOTROWSKA
Little “tales of ordinary madness Drawing from body language and the poetry of the absurd, the framework of Joanna Piotrowska’s multimedia practice is aimed at staging bodies under tension in artificial postures to bring out the violence of human relationships, oscillating from embrace to oppression. “Through photography, film and performance, Joanna Piotrowska points to […]